Instagram starts rolling out web profiles

Instagram, the photo-sharing mobile app owned by Facebook, is launching new web profiles for its millions of users, allowing them to access their shared images through a browser.

Rolling out over "the next few days", the new web profiles feature all photographs shared on Instagram by users, along with their profile photo, bio and photo-montage. This will offer other people a "snapshot" of the user's activity on Instagram.

All profiles will be listed at instagram.com/[username], and users can edit their profile details over the web. It is also possible to follow other users, as well as comment and 'like' photos on the other web profiles.

Instagram, which was bought by Facebook in the deal worth $715m earlier in the year, said that it will be rolling out profiles for everyone on the social network "over the course of this week".

The startup said that it is launching web profiles as "a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on the web".

"Instagram web profiles are a beautiful new way to view and share Instagram on the web," the company said in a blog post.